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let’s talk about depression and the hpa axis now  what does hpa stand for hypothalamus pituitary and  

adrenals okay so we have this feedback mechanism a  certain hormone is made by the hypothalamus which  

is kind of like the true master gland and it’s  sent down to the pituitary which is like the  

middle man it’s like you have the owner of the  football team and then you have the coach right  

and then the coach then gives it to one  of the players and that communication is  

another hormone that then tells the adrenals  what to do and so the adrenals then make  

its hormones and we’re going to be talking  about the cortisol which then creates its effect  

and then there’s a signal sent back to the  pituitary and hypothalamus to turn off that  

communication so we have a communication cycle  where we’re sending messages that’s being received  

and then there’s a return communication to turn  off that communication because we don’t want  

cortisol to keep going because that’s going to  burn out your body which is exactly what happens  

when you keep stimulating cortisol with  chronic stress there’s also something in  

your brain that cortisol affects and that’s  called a hippocampus which involves memory  

learning and what happens with high levels  of cortisol over a longer period of time  

you have a shrinkage of the hippocampus  and that’s going to affect your memory okay  

so what is the relationship between this hpa  access and depression it’s the over stimulation  

of the sympathetic nervous system  and the flight or fight mechanism  

the first thing that’s going to happen with  someone is they’re going to get anxiety  

and then as time goes on it starts to  go into depression on the flip side you  

have the opposing system it’s called the  parasympathetic nervous system and so we  

have the sympathetic which is fight or fight and  the parasympathetic which is the rest in digest  

the parasympathetic well both systems  are like a wave system in the body the  

sympathetic nervous system raises the pulse rate  for example and then the parasympathetic kicks in  

let’s say after you stop exercising and it’s a  push down wave mechanism that brings things back  

to normal when that system is dysregulated  you can also develop depression okay so you  

can actually predict depression if you have a  malfunctioning parasympathetic nervous system so  

we have two things we have a dysfunction with  an overactive uh flight or fight mechanism and  

then we have another problem where we lose  the brake pads the thing that’s supposed to  

recover us so you can develop depression from both  mechanisms now what can someone do if they have  

depression from chronic stress well reduce  the cause of the stress whatever that is  

it must be reduced number two magnesium helps  support and helps normalize an overactive hpa axis  

mechanism now fasting really can help someone  fasting not only brings up your emotional state  

and is one of the best things for depression  but can also reduce the stress on the hpa axis  

now of course i would always recommend combining  it with ketones because ketones are part of that  

because when you put someone in ketosis it’s  a much better fuel and then you go away from  

burning glucose because glucose can also affect  someone’s mood and bring them into a blood sugar  

anxiety or even a depression aerobic exercise is  also very therapeutic of reversing the damage to  

the hippocampus because we want to flood the  brain with lots of oxygen so a lot of long  

walks would be very therapeutic vitamin d vitamin  d not only is great for someone who is depressed  

but it can support the hypothalamus pituitary  adrenals and especially cortisol vitamin d is  

a steroid hormone and so it can  help support the adrenals and  

anytime someone has a an elevated cortisol they’re  usually going to be depleted of vitamin d now the  

herb rhodiola is another really good herb that  can act as an adaptogen for these problems don’t  

forget to focus on your sleep because if you’re  not sleeping it’s going to be virtually impossible  

to reverse the damage in the system and then  vitamin b1 from nutritional yeast is also very  

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